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empath75 • today at 4:11 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

It isn’t necessarily a crime to lie or do a hoax, and a fake poll by itself is probably well within the lines of free speech. The fraud question comes into it for two possible cases:

1) someone might have paid them to do a real poll and they faked it, which is just straightforward fraud with a clear victim.

2) (the fun one) they might have done it to manipulate political prediction markets, which gets into securities fraud questions.


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vessenes • today at 4:44 PM

Interesting idea -- when everything's on a prediction market, all speech can be a securities fraud!

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